Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. The authors called these "disruptive" solutions and provided a straightforward prescription for leaders looking to turn disruption into an opportunity.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for. What is the cost?

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price. Price competition hurts. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share. Penney, and Barnes & Noble.

Brand 10

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If the odds were 99:1 against breakthrough innovation inside the mature company, we'd still see leaders chasing after that golden ring. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? Disruptive innovation India'

Technology 9

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

In after-hours trading, the company’s share price fell 9% — representing $44 billion in lost market value. This kind of sharp price movement on seemingly modest news is not a new or isolated occurrence for Apple. Over the past 18 months the company’s stock price has careened from $705 (in Sept.

Price 8

Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

These were companies following the pattern of disruptive innovation. Now, I'm always hesitant to avoid basing too much on a company's stock performance as stock prices can move around for many reasons. Six of the seven companies individually exceeded the overall market, by wide margins.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Benchmarking Sample Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” New services can quickly go from trial to large-scale rollout and massive adoption, and established players can fall quickly by the wayside; think of how mobile GPS applications have taken the market by storm.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

In response, most companies hunker down and do more of the same — throw in a price cut, tweak a product feature, launch more advertising — and hope for the best. At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. And it just may permanently stall the new entrant.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. market in the first 18 months after their introduction.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. This story of disruption should feel familiar. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. So the company mobilized existing, under-utilized assets and connected them to a sharable revenue stream.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

At the time of the Geek Squad acquisition, it was considered foolish by many; a decade later, the $3 million purchase price has been repaid hundreds of times over. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Look for unorthodox opportunities.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Relative to the enormous economic value talent can deliver, gluten-free gourmet cafeterias and concierge service represent a small price to pay. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

But our predictive power plummets when there is a time delay or non-linearity, as in the case of a CEO who delivers better-than-expected earnings only to wonder at a drop in the stock price. Then you enter hypergrowth, which typically happens somewhere between 10-15% of market penetration. Saturation is reached at 90%+.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. During my time with Harvard Business School’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, we regularly referred to disruption as a problem of accounting and organizational design. The Old Dilemma.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Now it’s time for the law to play serious catch-up with a market that has continued moving quickly in unexpected directions.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. They have been displacers, not disrupters. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. It''s partly because managers of well-moated companies tend to turn complacent — or just don''t need much skill to run such a business in the first place. But that''s rare.

Advertising 8

Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The threat of Blue Nile has been felt most by mom & pop jewelers , but increasingly by the middle market retailers like Zales Corporation, as well as high-end brands like Tiffany and Cartier. Blue Nile's primary advantage is that it offers diamond rings online at prices that are as much as 35% lower than traditional retailers.

Retail 8

Retail Price Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Here's how that plays out in terms of stock price and earnings per share, comparing Yahoo's performance with Apple's when the situations were reversed. Last week, Apple beat the already upbeat market expectations, with record revenues of $46.3 billion and earnings of $13.87 billion and earnings at $.24 24 / share.

Resistance 12

Resistance Disruptive Innovation Business Model Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? They build brand presence before markets have been clearly defined. While online accounts soared, customers expressed increasing frustration at not being able to order through any channel at the same price. price for all trades, online or otherwise.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' At the company level, stock price is the measure." "On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. And that focus filters down to companies.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well. This progress will speed up adoption and propel more experimentation and practical application.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Programmatic technologies allow us to perform a match between placement and price in a highly dynamic, high-volume environment, as a complement to the people-driven processes. Marketing strategies.

Media 8

Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is a fascinating relationship between executives and the stock prices of the companies they manage. On the other hand, they frequently find their stock price inscrutable. The vast majority of executives think that their price is too low, but few can articulate an analytical case that backs that intuition.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. (

Debt to Equity Ratio 9

Debt to Equity Ratio Cost of Capital Strategy Incentives 9